If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
Verne Troyer
Related Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't... RICHARD ROGERS There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don... JOY FIELDING My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Se... PAUL KANE I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they w... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. MARK PAGEL If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would b... BABYFACE I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn... KIESZA I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That'... VINCENT GALLO I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like sw... LL COOL J I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been hel... MICHAEL LEE-CHIN It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently... VIVIENNE MING Don't be afraid to be who you really are. Enjoy it and don't take it and yourself so serious... SHAWN MICHAELS I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have ... MICHAEL LEE-CHIN Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I ... J. R. SMITH I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They&... ODELL BECKHAM, JR. We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't h... LATOYA LONDON Sometimes people are like, 'Hey, you played Dean Thomas!' and I'm like, 'Wow, you ac... ALFRED ENOCH I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many... BO JACKSON Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat m... ROB SHEFFIELD You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. Th... SARAH JESSICA PARKER I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either. VICTORIA PRATT If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&... JAMIE BLACKLEY I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt. LIAM NEESON Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of thi... J. R. SMITH Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You g... TYLER PERRY Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity. CAMERON DIAZ You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be s... DON RICKLES If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everyt... EMMA ROBERTS I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a h... FAT JOE I don't find it uncomfortable that I'm recognized and liked by so many people. If that were ... SONG HYE-KYO Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expec... ANDERSON PAAK If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ... B. B. KING Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm ... MIRANDA HART Without my dad, I wouldn't be here. MARIA SHARAPOVA There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted... KARIN SLAUGHTER There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they d... ALIA BHATT I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are... SCOTT DERRICKSON People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where ... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being... JOHN LEGEND Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let th... FRANK ROBINSON If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... GUY FIERI I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I co... CHUCK BROWN I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Do... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all the... HARLAND WILLIAMS There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid... DALEY THOMPSON There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids... JENNIFER YUH NELSON Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of ... JOAN CAULFIELD I know that, for me, I need to try to cover myself while breastfeeding so that no one snaps a pictur... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I don't want to make a mistake that would hurt the cause of Christ late in my life, so I'm g... JAMES DOBSON I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have ama... EMMA CAULFIELD I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much.... ADAM SANDLER I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou... CHRISTINE MCVIE You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the ins... CATE CAMPBELL I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating ar... CHER If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity... BILL ENGVALL If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am. ROBERT PLANT I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies. BRIE LARSON If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&... CARLENE CARTER I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my ... MARLEE MATLIN I love to dance, so I'm definitely always the first one out on the dance floor. And when it come... KYLIE JENNER I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably... TEDDY THOMPSON The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored ... PAT ROBERTSON We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilit... MARLEE MATLIN There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've ha... HALLE BERRY I feel like everything I wear is a favorite thing. I wouldn't wear something if I didn't lov... DAKOTA JOHNSON I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in l... BOB NEWHART My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care ... JEFF NICHOLS I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... BILL GOLDBERG I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don... GINA MCKEE I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I w... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than... JACKI WEAVER When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I t... ANNA PAQUIN I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight. SINEAD O'CONNOR There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan... TOM FORD If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably t... ADAM MANSBACH So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don'... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so bo... ADAM LAMBERT I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn... CHERYL TIEGS If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. ... MICHELLE OBAMA I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably bett... CAROLINE PAUL There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a... RICHARD SHERMAN I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable i... KATE BECKINSALE There really aren't too many sock companies. ROB KARDASHIAN A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so c... DOLLY PARTON My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of rel... MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin... BROWNIE MCGHEE I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really coo... KIRSTEN DUNST Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the pian... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my v... NOURIEL ROUBINI I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who are... BOB FOSSE If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many ... ADAM GILES I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going o... ANDY WARHOL In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ... VERONICA ROTH If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on... LANCE GROSS It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my r... EMINEM I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want t... JANE HORROCKS How many guitars do I have? I don't know. I don't know! But I think the answer to it is, mor... JIMMY PAGE
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